There has been increasing talks on Artificial Intelligence (AI) in various smartphone devices, but what can it really do for users? AI claims to improve the way people do things, but can it really make things better for consumers? Last 2017, Huawei released a new flagship line – Mate 10 and Mate 10 Pro. The devices boast of having a dedicated Neural Processing Unit (NPU) which acts as the brain for the smartphone. The Kirin 970 chipset holds a machine learning algorithm that makes the smartphone perform better.

Huawei unveiled in November 2017 the world's first smartphone-driven car using the Mate 10 Pro handset that takes control of the car using an artificial intelligence chip. The MWC presents the latests advances in mobile technologies and will be held from 26 February to 01 March 2018.

Chinese smartphone manufacturer Huawei has shown how an AI-powered smartphone can drive a car.As Ivor Bennett reports, the'RoadReader' project, on display at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, aims to demonstrate how existing mobile technology is capable of handling autonomous vehicles. A view of a driverless Porsche car controlled by Huawai's Mate 10 Pro handset that transforms a regular car into a self-driving vehicle. BARCELONA -- I'm a passenger in a Porsche Panamera riding on a short track set up outside Barcelona's soccer stadium. But what makes this particular driverless car demo unique is that it is being piloted by Huawei's Mate 10 Pro smartphone. The Chinese smartphone maker, the third largest in the world, insists it is not getting into the self-driving car business.

With no flagship phone to show off to the assembled mass of journalists, bloggers and tech execs, Huawei took a different tack this year at MWC. To showcase the company's AI push (read: remind everyone it's really into this neural processing gig), the Huawei used its Mate 10 Pro smartphone as a lightweight autonomous car brain, inside a Porsche, right outside FC Barcelona's stadium. I was one of the lucky few to experience what it's like to be driven around by an Android phone. Let's not get ahead of ourselves: This isn't Huawei eyeing a move into the crowded, messy world of self-driving cars. As one spokesperson put it, if a phone can "drive" a car, it must be a pretty good phone.

Huawei has unveiled the 'world's first' smartphone-driven car. An incredible video shows the Mate 10 Pro handset taking control of a Porsche using its artificial intelligence chip.

When Huawei presented the first smartphone processor with an AI unit at the IFA with the Kirin 970 from its subsidiary Hisilicon, the Chinese company captured the public's attention. The Neural Processing Unit (NPU) on the SoC is specifically responsible for the functions that can be performed faster and better with AI than with a traditional processor. At present, this mainly includes functions related to photography, image recognition and processing. First of all, artificial intelligence is the wrong term: considering today's so-called AI applications, at the core they're really using machine learning. A convolutional neural network (CNN) learns to recognize patterns on the basis of a large amount of raw data--completely independently.

Imagine an artificially-intelligent smartphone so clever that when we point the camera at a beautiful scene, it will guide us to the best spot to snap a picture, ensuring the lighting, composition, and colors are all perfect. It's a feature that in theory is not too far away. You'll take an amazing picture, but it will likely be exactly the same as photos taken by every other person who stood there and asked their phone to do the same thing. The AI effectively turned us into automatons, sharing beautiful-but-identical cookie-cutter photos. AI is a threat to our creativity and freedom of thought.

ZDNet's Sandra Vogel posted a formal review of the Huawei Mate 10 Pro, giving it an outstanding 9/10 rating. I've been spending quality time with this business-ready powerhouse and think that the AI found in the camera is worth discussing in a bit more detail. Huawei's partnership with Leica has resulted in some fantastic cameras and performance that is tough to beat. DxOMark awarded the Mate 10 Pro it second highest overall score, 97, and best still image score, 100. Keep in mind, these scores are not scaled to 100.

Since the nationwide recession of 2008, many regions in Ireland are still toiling to regain a stable economic foothold. Tech analysts say the answer lies in artificial intelligence – or AI – which could give Ireland the boost it needs to restore jobs in the country and prevent the ongoing millennial diaspora. A study from PwC indicates AI could add as much as €48 billion to the Irish gross domestic product by 2030. Although it's a sizeable amount, that figure still puts Ireland behind other global economies, such as those in Asia. Researchers clarify the increase will occur partially because of technology such as automation, which would allow members of the Irish workforce to get tasks done faster.

Huawei Technologies, the world's largest telecommunications equipment supplier, has forged an artificial intelligence (AI) alliance with Chinese internet search provider Baidu in a move that ratchets up the competition against Apple in leading the future of smartphones. The strategic cooperation with Huawei will kick off the AI-powered intelligent devices era, said Robin Li Yanhong, Baidu's chairman and chief executive, at the joint launch of their AI pact in Beijing on Thursday. There is much to look forward to an alliance between a smartphone company and an AI company, he said. The goal is to foster a new mobile and AI ecosystem by leveraging Huawei's hiAI platform and Baidu Brain, a compendium of the company's AI assets and services, and combine hardware and software to provide global consumers with new smart service experiences, according to the two companies. That would give Shenzhen-based Huawei, China's biggest smartphone brand, with an important edge in competing against Apple and other major players in the global mobile phone market, which will demand more devices with on-board AI capabilities over the next few years.